Implementation and debugging of BOINC

Note: for legal reasons, the BOINC project has temporarily been removed from Sourceforge.net and the source code is not available. We hope to resolve this situation soon.

BOINC is open-source software. If you are an experienced C++ system programmer you may be able to help us maintain and enhance BOINC. In any case, you are welcome to browse the source code and give us feedback.

Visit http://sf.net/projects/boinc to download the source code and to view the list of outstanding bugs and feature requests.

Before sure that you understand exactly how BOINC is intended to work (for both participants and developers) before getting into the source code.

Core client

• Building the core client (Build system)
• File structure
• FSM structure
• Data structures
• Main loop logic
• Debugging
• Host measurement and identification
• Core client/application interaction (basic)
• Core client/application interaction (graphics)

• The BOINC database
• Policy
• Implementation
• Debugging

• The scheduling server protocol
• Scheduling server timing and retry policies
• Data server protocol
• Persistent file transfers

• Preferences